Unity schmunity! CPAC was three days of discord among Republican right-wingers!

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Mar 17, 2013 at 5:25 PM

Perhaps the best characterization of the Conservative Political Action Conference of the past three days was offered by Republican activist Steve Schmidt, who likened it to the bar scene in “Star Wars” — which is to say it was a freak show.

For every political biped who speechified at CPAC (Jeb Bush, for example), there were two political quadrupeds (Sarah Palin and Donald Trump).

But more to the point, the doings were a festival of dissonance, as we see HERE:

If there was any doubt about the huge amount of discord within the Republican Party, the three-day Conservative Political ...

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Pat Cunningham

Perhaps the best characterization of the Conservative Political Action Conference of the past three days was offered by Republican activist Steve Schmidt, who likened it to the bar scene in “Star Wars” — which is to say it was a freak show.

For every political biped who speechified at CPAC (Jeb Bush, for example), there were two political quadrupeds (Sarah Palin and Donald Trump).

But more to the point, the doings were a festival of dissonance, as we see HERE:

If there was any doubt about the huge amount of discord within the Republican Party, the three-day Conservative Political ...